An 18-year-old student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati committed suicide by hanging herself. A student of mechanical engineering, the deceased also penned a moving suicide note.

Guwahati: On Wednesday morning, a first year B Tech student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan. The girl, 18-year-old Nagashree SC was studying Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in state capital Guwahati. A resident of Hosangara near Shivamogga in Karnataka, she left behind a suicide note where she expressed her desire to become a teacher and not an engineer.

In charge of the Amingaon police outpost, Rana Bhuyan told national daily, The Hindu, the girl wrote in her suicide letter that it was better to die than fail the expectations of her parents and other family members.

News of Nagashree's death began spreading after university guards saw her through an open window, hanging from a ceiling fan. They immediately alerted local police who sent their officers from the outpost to attend to the matter. Around 10.30 am, the officers broke open the door to find the teenager's body suspended from a ceiling fan. A doctor present at the university at the time was summoned and he pronounced Nagashree dead.

In an official statement issued by their spokesperson, IIT Guwahati expressed condolences for the girl's family and said that Nagashree told her roommate that she was not feeling well and would not attend classes on the day she decided to take her life. Located across the Brahmaputra, the campus of IIT here is about 20 km away from state capital Guwahati.

Local police said that the deceased's parents have been informed and her body has been sent for post-mortem.

‘Want to be a teacher, not engineer’, says suicide note penned by IIT Guwahati studentDescription:An 18-year-old student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati committed suicide by hanging herself. A student of mechanical engineering, the deceased also penned a moving suicide note.Times Now